Where does “bulvaaniyhtiö” come from?
bulvaaniyhtiö (Finnish) comes from Finnish yhtiö, from Finnish -io, from Finnish -o, from Proto-Finnic -o, from Proto-Uralic -w.
bulvaaniyhtiö (Finnish): dummy company
Ancestry of “bulvaaniyhtiö”, step by step
bulvaaniyhtiö traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish yhtiö
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | yhtiö | company, corporation |
| 2 | Finnish | -io | Forms nouns from verbs or verbal stems; Forms... |
| 3 | Finnish | -o | Forms result or action nouns from verbs; Forms... |
| 4 | Proto-Finnic | -o | Forms action/result nouns from verbs |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | -w | — |
via Finnish bulvaani
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Finnish | bulvaani | front, front organization, straw man, paper man,... |
| 2 | Swedish | bulvan | front, someone acting on behalf of someone else |
| 3 | Latvian | bulvāns | — |